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- Thread starter Stonedfish
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TV Weather/News reporter tonight indicated the Olympic mountain snowpack is currently only at 28% of normal for this date, and North and Central Cascades snowpack only at about 50%.
I commented a week or so ago that it’s still early in the season, but this is getting a little worrisome.
Record high temp’ today (12/29) at SeaTac airport was 63F!!!
I commented a week or so ago that it’s still early in the season, but this is getting a little worrisome.
Record high temp’ today (12/29) at SeaTac airport was 63F!!!
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For you upper left non gloom lovers.
Happy New Year
And just to make sure the rust and moss don’t lose their rich patina.
SF
Happy New Year
And just to make sure the rust and moss don’t lose their rich patina.
SF
Apparently next Friday according to the weather guessers. Same-day forecasts are accurate about 80% of the time, next-day are about 90%, and 10-day are about 50%, so flip a coin--either they're right, or they're wrong.
Yesterday at West Beach on Whidbey.
I wonder how Teslas do against saltwater?
SF
I wonder how Teslas do against saltwater?
SF
I learned a new to me term this morning while reading a forecast.
Graupel
Graupel, also called soft hail, hominy snow, or snow pellets, is precipitation that forms when supercooled water droplets in air are collected and freeze on falling snowflakes, forming 2–5 mm balls of crisp, opaque rime.Graupel is distinct from hail and ice pellets in both formation and appearance.
Graupel
Graupel, also called soft hail, hominy snow, or snow pellets, is precipitation that forms when supercooled water droplets in air are collected and freeze on falling snowflakes, forming 2–5 mm balls of crisp, opaque rime.Graupel is distinct from hail and ice pellets in both formation and appearance.
flybill
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Graupel! Our "Word of the Day"!! LOL!
I wonder how many of those driftwood logs are inside houses. What a mess.
Kitesurfer gettin’ after it! Helluva place to build homes…
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Swept away some cobwebs to remember that one from my backcountry skiing days...
"A buried graupel layer demonstrates its ball-bearing-like appearance."
Very Bad on snow slopes.
Avalanche.org » Graupel / Rimed Particles
Snow crystals grow inside clouds made of water droplets. If they collide, these droplets can freeze to the snow crystal. Once frozen, these small droplets are called rime. If the snow crystal becomes completely covered in rime, it’s called graupel. Graupel is a heavily rimed snow crystal that...
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